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Alfred Peet started a revolution way back in 1966. A Dutchman, Peet was a world traveler who fueled his coffee obsession via stops in England and Indonesia before settling down in wild and wooly San Francisco just before the Summer of Love.
Starbucks? Peet trained their staff and supplied their beans when they opened up in Seattle in 1971.
He was a lion of the industry.
Austin Daily Photo: Cuvée Coffee Opens For Business Inside Austin's Finest Butchery: Salt And Time
Feb 26
The Prague Spring-like renaissance of East Austin continues apace with bona fide craft coffee superstar Cuvée opening for business this morning at Salt And Time Butcher Shop.
We ran by for a moment at lunch to take a couple photos and get the lay of the land. More details to come as we are under a major time crunch due to the pop up event this weekend.
Back at it.
We drink a lot of coffee in Austin, Texas. Until recently, 90% of that drinking took place at a wide range of coffee shops scattered all over town. But now that we've gotten access to Picacho Coffee out of Las Cruces, New Mexico we've found ourselves camped out on the front porch for our morning cup a lot more frequently
Picacho is a solar-powered roaster that specializes in small, hand-crafted batches of coffee that most suppliers have no access to. They work in micro-lots in some instances where a tiny farm in the Americas or some far flung tropical island grows a few dozen bags of some hopelessly rare bean strain.
If our barista's not dressed up like a Greek immigrant bartender circa 1915 we always go for the drip coffee.
Nothing says highly skilled like a waxy mustache, sleeve garters, starchy white shirt and vintage pantaloons. So if that's missing from the equation, we reckon we've got a novice behind the espresso machine and need to order accordingly.
More details soon on this southeast Austin coffee shop
One of the best baristas in Austin; Ruth at Jp's Java. This girl can grind, dose, tamp, and pour with the best of them.
Jp's has been usurped in the Austin coffee hierarchy as young buck brewers like Once Over down on South First Street and Caffe Medici have sprung up since Jp's first opened a decade ago.
But out of all the north campus area coffee houses this is easily the best source for proper shots and pulls.
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Too late.
By the time the barista had handed me my morning cup it was too late. I was all in on a cup of Starbucks coffee. A "pleasure" I'd not known in well over a decade.
I first discovered "good" coffee back in the 90s. By good I mean beans that had been roasted locally and dispensed via a La Marzocco espresso machine by a barista who'd actually been trained to operate the infernal device.
Druid-like they move quietly through the dark alleys of Austin, Texas long after normal, God-fearing people have given the night to slumber. They arrive at the pre-ordained location and begin preparing for an illicit contest which will determine, for 2 fortnights, the ruler of their forbidden kingdom.
They are Austin, Texas baristas, and once per month, through black magick and subterfuge, coax bizarre potions out of ancient, rattling machines spirited in from continents away before a group of their peers and acolytes.
Eschewing the powers of Twitter and Facebook they relay word of their competition via highly trained, papyrus-carrying, cane rats that scutter through the labyrinthine sewer system that exists far beneath the placid streets of Austin.
Gary Dinges over at the Statesman has a great article up on a robotic coffee kiosk that has popped up on the University of Texas campus. Briggo Coffee, undoubtedly hatched in a dank, airless basement on the outskirts of town, is a new concept offered by Kevin Nater and Charles Studor.
The machine, located in the Flawn Academic Center, is the company's sole outlet. Briggo has raised 7.8 million dollars in capital for the venture in which you download an app for your smartphone, start mashing some buttons and prepare to receive your morning jolt from a box of nuts and bolts.
After hanging out at Vintage Heart Coffee for a half hour or so earlier this week it dawned on us that we were sitting in the former home of El Rey, a mediocre Mexican restaurant that shuttered at least ten years ago. Memories fade. Sips on 7th was also a tenant but with the 900 pound gorilla that is Rio Rita nearby Sips could never gain traction and entered into the lore of failed Austin coffee shops.
Enter Vintage Heart.
